A deal between Anthropic, Microsoft and Nvidia makes AI more circular

Leaked documents reveal how much OpenAI paid Microsoft under a revenue-share agreement. They also indicate inference costs.

Microsoft has agreed to a deal that will allow OpenAI to become a for-profit company, likely paving the way for an IPO. The tech giant's stake will be worth $135 billion and comes with another $250 billion in cloud computing revenue.

Leaked documents reveal OpenAI paid Microsoft $1.36 billion in revenue sharing in 2023, confirming the depth of their financial partnership

The tech giant plans to leverage its partner's custom chip development to bolster its own struggling semiconductor efforts, a move that looks increasingly pragmatic given Microsoft's lackluster performance compared to rivals like Google and Amazon.

The SWE-Bench Verified evaluation is basically a test of AI processing accuracy. It measures how well the AI solves a set of coding problems. According to OpenAI, GPT-5.1-Codex-Max "reaches the same performance" as the previous model, GPT-5.1-Codex.

Microsoft just integrated Sora 2 into Microsoft 365 Copilot, giving users access to advanced AI video generation with improved realism and control.

Microsoft and Nvidia are planning to invest up to $15 billion in total in Anthropic, in the latest AI-driven tie-up that also includes a $30 billion commitment by the Claude maker to use Microsoft's cloud services.